Father of Jacob Blake who was shot by police in Wisconsin says his son is paralysed

Protesters gather in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake (Anna Reed/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

The father of a black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son has been left paralysed from the waist down.

Jacob Blake’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times that he was told his son was shot eight times during the confrontation with police on Sunday evening, which was captured on mobile phone video and led to two nights of unrest in the city between Milwaukee and Chicago.